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Teaching Gallery: Picturing Poverty

White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Selected for Hemenway, LA&S 301 Learning Communities Seminar: End of Global Poverty in conjuction with End Global Poverty Week (Oct 15th -19th). Students in learning community contacted the museum to work with us on this topic and they promoted the installation campus-wide.

Works of art

Norman Strike (born 1949), This I Believe — This I Believe

Norman Strike

1989

Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), At the Time of the Louisville Flood — At the Time of the Louisville Flood

Margaret Bourke-White

1937

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), The Unsafe Tenement — The Unsafe Tenement

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

1858

Jean François Millet (1814–1875), The Gleaners — The Gleaners

Jean François Millet

1856

Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985), The family of a migratory fruit worker from Tennessee now camped in a field near the packinghouse at Winter Haven, Florida — The family of a migratory fruit worker from Tennessee now camped in a field near the packinghouse at Winter Haven, Florida

Arthur Rothstein

1937

Weegee (1899–1968), Asleep on Fire Escape During Heat Spell — Asleep on Fire Escape During Heat Spell

Weegee

1938

Jim Goldberg (born 1953), untitled — untitled

Jim Goldberg

1979

Gunther Sander; August Sander (1876–1964), Unemployed Man, Cologne — Unemployed Man, Cologne

August Sander, Gunther Sander

1928

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Robert Evans and his family — Robert Evans and his family

Diane Arbus

1968

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), The da Silva Family at Dawn — The da Silva Family at Dawn

Gordon Parks

1961

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), Madonna of the Tenement — Madonna of the Tenement

Lewis Wickes Hine

1904

Marion Palfi (1907–1978), New York, 1956-58 (This woman received $30.00 per month in Social Security benefits. She paid from it her rent and utilities. One dollar was left over on which she lived. She was seeking old age...) — New York, 1956-58 (This woman received $30.00 per month in Social Security benefits. She paid from it her rent and utilities. One dollar was left over on which she lived. She was seeking old age...)

Marion Palfi

1956–1958